Conservative Quotes

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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or… — Tom Shales
He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' — Frank Gaffney
I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If… — Jon Lovitz
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller
Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could… — Jonathan Haidt
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with… — Thomas Oden
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically… — Brennan Manning
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was… — Leo Tolstoy
I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts… — Chris Parnell
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how… — George Carlin
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one. — Douglas William Jerrold
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country. — Taki Theodoracopulos
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the… — Learned Hand
On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative â€” like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. — Mark Twain
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory. — S. J. Perelman
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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